Category: Movies
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Movie review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition
Watched the Blu-Ray of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey tonight! Picoreview: distinct improvement over the theatrical cut, fun in Rivendell, and REAL interesting backstory details for Tolkien nerds!
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Dental surgery–and today’s Murkworks Movie Suckoff!
Went in to see my new dentist for gum graft surgery today, which is because I’ve got a few spots in my mouth where the gums have pulled back enough to expose the roots of my teeth. This has caused me all sorts of sensitivity issues, and my new dentist’s recommendation was that we do…
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Weekend of Turkey, Battlestar, and Potter
As is our custom at the Murkworks, we had our annual Homeless Waifs Thanksgiving Day Turkeyfest, and this time around we had a very respectable turnout of 16 people, including children. Much obliged to mamishka, technoshaman, maellenkleth, dpawtows, epawtows, ypawtows, cflute, sksouth, fredpdx, and Mimi’s friend Chad who all showed up to make a wonderful…
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, Whedon-less edition
A lot of word has been going around the net about how there’s going to be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, without Joss Whedon. My reaction? I think I’ve already lamented enough about the current Hollywood trend of endless reboots, but this in particular seems a particularly silly thing to reboot–after all, the original…
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Daniel Craig + Old West + aliens + Harrison Ford = AWESOME
I just saw this post go up on tor.com, and most of it I was all “yeah yeah yeah whatever” about, until I got to the trailer at the bottom. The one that involves Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in a movie set in the Old West with ALIENS. Money quote: If you need one…
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Possibly the best T-shirt EVER
Hat tip to seimaisin for Tweeting about this site, a T-shirt selling site, whose shirt of the day is possibly the most awesome T-shirt I have ever seen. Calvin and Hobbes. Han and Chewie. Two great tastes that go great together. ;> Go check it out folks, and FAST, because this shirt’s going away in…
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Awesome little Star Wars fan film
pointed me at this last night, and I am obliged by two and a half years of playing Solo on Star Wars MUSH to share this with you all. <3 The creator did an awesome job, and apparently even won a fan film contest with it! Particular props for the voice work for Han channeling…
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Attention, Dork Nation of Seattle!
For those of you who didn’t see me say this on Facebook or Twitter: There’s a Harry Potter exhibit coming to the Pacific Science Center on October 23rd! And, AND, the very same weekend, a Battlestar Galactica exhibit arrives at the Sci-Fi Museum! Including full-sized prop ships! In short: GEEK WEEKEND OF AWESOME. Tix for…
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Not going to see Avatar: The Last Airbender movie
I may have made this clear already, but just in case I hadn’t: I’m not going to see the new Avatar: The Last Airbender movie. Part of this is because I take issue with the movie’s overall Fail at changing the races of Aang, Katara, and Sokka, leaving Zuko as the only non-white character. Part…
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Speaking of The Crowe
The Intarwebz are informing me today that he is apparently going to be in a remake of the 80’s TV show The Equalizer. My fangirly brain was dubious about this, and had the following conversation with itself: Rational: Oh god not another remake! Fangirly: But, but, but, RUSSELL! Shooting things! Rational: But it’s ANOTHER REMAKE!…